The U.S. Labor Department said a Cleveland company that provides workers to airports violated fair labor standards, and ordered it to give employees in Denver more than $12,700 in back pay.

The labor department said it had also fined Flight Services and Systems Inc. $40,260 for having repeat violations for nearly the same issue. The company supplies airports with valets, skycaps, cart drivers and baggage handlers.

The 183 current and former company workers in Denver had the costs of uniforms deducted from their pay, dropping their hourly wage below the federal minimum of $7.25, the agency said in a release Thursday.

The company was also cited for not keeping accurate records of employee work hours and wages. The investigation was conducted by the agency’s Denver office.

David is a member of the Investigations Team and has been at The Denver Post since 1999. He was a founding member of the team before moving on to cover banking, finance, human services, consumer affairs, and business investigations. He has also worked at newspapers in New York, St. Louis and Detroit over a 35-year career.

The owners of Boulder’s Sterling University Peaks apartments, who this summer were cited for illegally subdividing 92 bedrooms in the complex, have reached an agreement to settle the case for $410,000, the city announced Thursday.